Summary Of Nightjohn By Gary Paulsen

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In the book Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen chapter 4 has many events that are crucial to the story. First Alice who is a little addled in the mind is forced to be a breeder but she fights against it and then she was beaten. Next Alice was caught walking up to the white house and then Old Waller whips her with his belt until her back is bloody and her skin is hanging off her body. Then Sarny has a flashback to Jim who ran away but the dogs found him and while he was hanging in the tree they ate the entire bottom off his body and he died on the tree. Furthermore Pawley was sneaking away to be with another woman on a different plantation, one day he was caught and even though he was coming back Waller let the dogs cut him but not kill him. Then when

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